Re: HP server and atto driver from hell

[Mr. James W. Laferriere]

	Hello Ralf ,  Fyi ,  the fusion/mpt driver supports some of the ATTO 
devices ,  if your lspci -v for the ATTO controllers looks simular to this one 
it may just work with the fusion drivers .
	Hth ,  JimL

# lspci -v -s 0d:04.0
0d:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Atto Technology Ultra320 SCSI Host Adapter (rev 08)
        Subsystem: Atto Technology Unknown device 8027
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 16
        I/O ports at 5000 [size=256]
        Memory at d8640000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Memory at d8600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
        Capabilities: [68] PCI-X non-bridge device



On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> We thought HP would be a smart choice when it comes to Linux,..
> Until now, because now we have to use a PCI Express SCSI card that
> comes with a proprietary driver that won't even compile.
>
> When I untar the lnx_drv_epciu320_107.tar.gz and try to compile the
> glue between the binary blob and the kernel, I get:
>
> c# make -k modules
> Architecture is i386 (x86_regparm)
> make[1]: Entering directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.25'
>  CC [M]  /usr/src/lnx_drv_epciu320_107/src/atto_cfg.o
>  /usr/src/lnx_drv_epciu320_107/src/atto_cfg.c: In function âattocfg_read_versionâ: /usr/src/lnx_drv_epciu320_107/src/atto_cfg.c:258: error: âstruct device_driverâ has no member named âkobjâ
> make[2]: *** [/usr/src/lnx_drv_epciu320_107/src/atto_cfg.o] Error 1
>  CC [M]  /usr/src/lnx_drv_epciu320_107/src/oswrap.o
>  /usr/src/lnx_drv_epciu320_107/src/oswrap.c: In function âexpress2_attocfg_registerâ: /usr/src/lnx_drv_epciu320_107/src/oswrap.c:908: error: âstruct device_driverâ has no member named âkobjâ
> make[2]: *** [/usr/src/lnx_drv_epciu320_107/src/oswrap.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Target __build' not remade because of errors.
> make[1]: *** [_module_/usr/src/lnx_drv_epciu320_107/src] Error 2
> make[1]: Target modules' not remade because of errors.
> make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/linux-2.6.25'
> make: *** [modules] Error 2
>
> in atto_cfg.c:
>
>   258          if (this_drvr->kobj == &driver->kobj)
>   259          {
>   260              if (this_drvr->read_version)
>   261                  return (*this_drvr->read_version) (driver, buffer);
>   262              else
>   263                  return 0;
>   264          }
>
> and in oswrap.o:
>
>   905                  return NULL;
>   906      }
>   907
>   908      return &atto_pci_driver.driver.kobj;
>   909  }
>   910

--
+------------------------------------------------------------------+
| James   W.   Laferriere | System    Techniques | Give me VMS     |
| Network&System Engineer | 2133    McCullam Ave |  Give me Linux  |
| babydr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | Fairbanks, AK. 99701 |   only  on  AXP |
+------------------------------------------------------------------+